by EVAGGELOS VALLIANATOS Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair On July 1, 1958, the ruler of China, Mao Tse-tung, said farewell to the god of plagues. Mao’s celebration was short lived. The god of plagues has been ravaging […]
by DEAN BAKER Photograph Source: Kevin Dooley – CC BY 2.0 The Washington Post is always telling us that debt, especially government debt is bad, very bad. It’s not quite sure why or how, but debt is […]
by SUSAN ROBERTS On my way back from my daily exercise routine, I pass the local junk/antiques emporium and notice that beneath the official Covid- 19 flyer some wag has put up a hand-written sign that […]
BY MICHAEL ARRIA A DEMONSTRATION IN KAFR QADDUM IN APRIL 2010 (PHOTO: INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT) In an explosive new report at The Intercept, journalist Chip Gibbons reveals that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) launched multiple terrorism investigations into […]
‘A huge and timely BDS victory’: Microsoft divests from Israeli tech firm AnyVision BY MICHAEL ARRIA (JVP TWITTER) Microsoft has announced that its divesting its shareholding in the Israeli facial recognition company AnyVision. The move follows […]
ALLAN C. BROWNFELD Hannah Recht (l), Lauren Maunus and other members of IfNotNow hand out information to people attending the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) annual conference outside the Walter E. Washington Convention Center […]
Posted by: Sammi Ibrahem,Sr Coronavirus: Gaza Joins International Panic—Mohammed Omer Palestinians Would Die for the Israeli Kind of Lockdown—Gideon Levy Prisons are Super-Spreaders of the Coronavirus: Free Palestinians and Americans—Delinda C. Hanley A Deadly Combination […]
by JEFFREY ST. CLAIR Still from Masque of the Red Death (Dir. Roger Corman, 1964). + I was sick for much of February. Really sick. Fever. Sore throat. Aching joints. A persistent cough that was, as […]
by LEE HALL Photograph Source: Seniju – CC BY 2.0 It’s early April ― peak lockdown in the United States ― and Anthony Fauci is chastising China over wet markets. “It just boggles my mind,” Dr. Fauci said, […]
by ROB URIE Photograph Source: su-ch – CC BY 2.0 With Old Testament locusts and plagues re-emerging for the late capitalist era, one could be forgiven for imagining that an avenging God has been awakened. As the […]